Goodfellow Family Cellars "Temperance Hill Vineyard" Pinot Noir '22

Temperance Hill Vineyard sits in the center of the Eola-Amity Hills AVA, has been farmed organically for two decades, and is one of the iconic vineyards of Oregon. The vineyard bridges across from the Eastern to the Western slopes of the Eola-Amity Hills AVA, feeling the effects of the wind from all sides. Soils are predominanty volcanic, with a variety of aspects and slopes that center around two peaks, reaching to 860ft in elevation. This wine was produced from two blocks, one running down a steep East facing slope, planted in 1993, and the second from an even steeper West facing slope, originally planted in 1983.

The 2022 Temperance Hill shows cedar and tobacco, mulberry, black raspberry, fresh ground coffee, graphite, flint and stone. The black and red fruits are there, but with so much mineral intertwined and flowing through. More forward aromatically than our wines sometimes are at this age, it's elegant, medium bodied, with finesse in the mid-palate and then shifts into a sturdier finish with fine tannins that show good depth with modest astringency.